First Aid and CPR
Purpose of First Aid and Safety Training
The goal of this course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to react in an emergency. These skills may help to reduce pain, minimize the consequences of an injury or sudden illness or keep someone alive.
Ultimately, the skills learned in this course could help save a life in an emergency situation. To be able to think critically, make appropriate decisions, and respond appropriately in any emergency are skills that can be developed through practice, case studies, group discussion, using mock situations, and practice. Thus, we will literally spend hours practicing on the manikins and each other to help refine these skills.
Certifications
First Aid-Responding to Emergencies : valid 2 Years;
AED-Adult : valid 2 Years
AED-Child : valid 2 Years
Adult CPR : valid 2 Years
Child CPR : valid 2 Years
Infant CPR : valid 2 Years
Textbook/Materials
- You will need to purchase the appropriate textbooks manuals
- Bring your First Aid and CPR books to every class.
- Each student will need a folder to hold all of the notes/handouts and pens and/or pencils to take notes
Cost of Class
- Textbooks = $50
- Certifications = $27
- TOTAL = $77(check – made out to Souderton Area High School)
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of the Community First Aid and Safety Course, participants should be able to:
- Explain how the EMS system works and what situations require a person to call 911.
- Explain how to protect themselves and victims from infectious diseases
- Identify the signals of a breathing emergency and demonstrate how to care for the victim.
- Identify the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- Identify the signals of a possible heart attack and demonstrate the care that needs to be given.
- Describe the purpose of an AED and where they are located
- Demonstrate how bleeding can be controlled
- Identify the signals of various injuries and demonstrate how to care for them.
- Identify the signals of sudden illnesses and demonstrate how to care for them.
Expectations
- All students are responsible for missed work
- Students are expedited to be prompt. Classes will begin and end on time.
- Student must initiate their own makeup work
- Students are require to complete work by assigned dates
- Students are expected to be respectful and courteous to others
- Students are expected to read and study material prior to class to promote discussion, debate and stimulate lifelong learning
- Students are expected to study for all exams and take exams on scheduled dates and time.
- Disruptions will not be tolerated
- Souderton Area High School cell phone rules apply
Student Responsibilities
- Attend all class sessions and participate in all class activities. All of the video segments must be watched and all of the chapters must be read.
- Demonstrate competency in each skill taught during this course.
- Correctly answer at least 80 percent of the questions on the final exam.
Sensitive Material*****
- There will be class discussions, materials, and films depicting emergency delivery of babies, severe bleeding, burns, trauma, injury to genitalia, and other material of a sensitive nature.
Grading Procedures
- A student must attend class and demonstrate skills to the instructor in order to pass.
- 80% -Projects, Homework, and in class participation/assignments.
- 20%- First Aid & CPR certification test
- At the end of this course, the student will be certified in First Aid, and Adult, Child, Infant CPR. These certifications are sponsored by the American Red Cross of Pennsylvania.
Units
FIRST AID/SAFETY & CPR UNITS:
A Safer and Healthier Life Soft Tissue Injuries
Assessment of Victims and Situations Musculoskeletal Injuries
Breathing Emergencies Sudden Illness
Cardiac Emergencies Water Injuries
AED Training Childbirth
Bleeding Emergencies Skills Testing CPR, AED, First Aid
Delayed Help Situations Written Exams - CPR, AED, First Aid
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